Snow-remover.



C. FERGER.r

SNOWREMOVER.

APPLlcmoN FILED lune 25,-1911.

l ,2% l i, 1 @2 Patented Sept. 25, 191'?.

UNTER@ STATE@ ATEN @EFFQEQ CHARLES FERGER, OF INDIANAPOLS, INDIANA.

SNOW-REMOVER.

Application filed .Tune 25, 191'?.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lrnown that I, CHARLES Fnnonina citizen of the United States,residing at 1ndianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snow-Removers, ofwhich the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to a device for removing snow from side-walks andthe like; and the object of the invention consists in the provision of adevice of the above character by which side-walks and similar pathwayscan be readily and economically cleared of snow.

A further object of the invention consists in the provision of a deviceof the above character which is simple in construction, efficient inoperation, and which is cheap to manufacture.

1 accomplish the above objects of the invention by means of theconstruction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a parthereof, in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of my invention. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is afragmentary detail sectional view, on an enlarged scale, on the line 3 3in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents the draft beam of the device,and one end of beam 10 is provided with a disk-wheel 11 for supportingits forward end and enabling the device to be easily moved. The rear endof the beam 10 is provided with a transverse handle 12. A transverse bar1,5 is pivotally secured to the central portion of beam 10 by means of abolt 17. Attached to bar 15 is a scraper-blade 16 which is curvedrearwardly, as shown, to form a scoop for engaging the snow during theadvancedtravel of the device. Arranged in advance of and parallel withbar 15 is a stationary bar 18 which is rigidly secured to the top ofbeam 10 by means of the bolts 19. rEhe length of bar 18 coincidessubstantially with the length ot scraper-blade 16, and bar 18 isprovided at its ends with cutter or guard-blades 20. Blades 20 cut thesnow along` parallel lines and separate it from the adjacent mass,thereby enabling the snow to be freely scooped up by scraper-blade 16,when the device is moved forward. Scraper-blade 16 Specification ofLetters Patent.

Serial No. 176,662.

is susceptible of being oscillated about its pivot 17 and may thus beinclined to a plane through. the longitudinal axis of beam l() by meansof a shifting-rod which is pivoted at one end to bar 15 at 23, and theother end of rod is adjustably secured to beam 10 by means of a pin'1`he inclination of scraper-blade 16 may be varied by moving rod 22longitudinally, and said rod is secured in position when one of theapertures 27 is brought into alinement with aperture 28 in beam 10. Thisadjustability of scraper-blade 16 is desirable where the snow is to bedeposited on one side of the pathway to be cleared of snow. fis anillustration, if blade 16 is inclined, as indicated by the dotted linein F ig. 1, the snow will be forced out of the end of blade 16 projectedtoward lthe top of the sheet, and on the next cut when the device ismoving in the opposite direction the inclination of blade 16 isreversed, thereby discharging the snow from the opposite end of theblade 16 but in the same general direction as before. lWhenscraper-blade 16 is inclined one of its ends will be substantiallyclosed against the e.- cape of snow by means of the proximity andcontour of adjacent cutter-blade 20, and when the inclination of blade16 is reversed the opposite end of said blade is closed bv the adjacentcutter-blade 2O mounted on the other end of bar 15.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what l' desire to secureby Letters Patent is- A device of the character described comprising` aroller-mounted beam, a transverse, har pivotally secured to said beamintermediate its length, a scraper-blade carried by said bar, a rodv forchanging the angularity of said bar to said beam, a stationary bararranged in advance of the pivoted bar, means for rigidly securing saidstationary bar to said beam, a guard-blade secured to .ich end of saidstationary bar, for closing the adjacent end of the scraper-blade whenthe latter stands in an inclined position.

In witness whereof l have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis,ndiana, this 20th day of June A. D. one thousand nine hundred andseventeen.

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Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

